Draft-rigging carrier.



No, 777,539. PATENTED DEC. 13, 1904. O. S. PULLIAM.

DRAFT RIGGING GARRIER.

APPLIUATION FILED SEPT. 2. 1904.

N0 MODEL.

il STATES Patented December 13, 190%.

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pnaF'r-aieelwe QARFuEnQ SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No.

777,539, dated December 13, 190%.

Application filed September 2, 1904. Serial No. 223,075. (No model.)

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Be it known that I, OSWALD S. PULLIAM, a citizen of the United States, residing in the city of St. Louis, in the State of Missouri, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Draft-Rigging Carriers, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification.

My invention relates to a draft-rigging carrier for attachment to ear-sills so constructed as to provide at its under side a center-bean ng integral with the carrier for the car-truck bolster.

It also relates to means whereby the draft rigging carrier is united with the body-bolster, the object being to throw a part of the strain usually exerted upon the draft-rigging carrier upon the body-bolster.

Figure I is a top or plan view of my draftrigging carrier and a body-b0lster set thereinto. Fig. II is a vertical longitudinal section taken on line II II, Fig. I, showing the center-bearing cast integrally with the carrier. Fig. III is a vertical cross-section taken on line III III, Fig. I. Fig. IV is a horizontal section taken on line IV IV, Fig. II. Fig. V is a perspective view of the central portion of the body-bolster. Fig. VI is a perspective View of the bolster--receiving portion of the draft-rigging carrier.

1 designates my cast-metal draft-rigging carrier proper, which is designed to be mounted upon the center sills of a railway-car, to which it is secured by bolts passed Vertically through the sills and through ears 2, projecting laterally at the sides of the carrier proper.

The end A of the carrier proper receives the draftrigging, which may be mounted therein in any suitable manner, the mounting of the rigging constituting no part of my invention. In the top side of the carrier proper and extending transversely thereacross is a body-bolster recess 3, that contains ledges 4. At the sides of the carrier and at or near the bottom thereof, as seen in Figs. III and VI, are ears 5. At the lower side of the carrier and integral therewith is a center-bearing 6 for the tlLlClI-l)OlSi3(-3F, that occupies a position immediately beneath the body-bolster, seated in the recess 3.

is secured to said draft-rigging 7 designates a body-bolster that has upper and lower chords 8 and 9 and an intervening vertical web 10. The lower chord and web of this body-bolster are cut away at the longitudinal center of the bolster, as seen at 11, Fig. V, to permit of the bolster being seated in the recess 3 of the draft-rigging carrier, with its center-bearing 12 resting at the bottom of said. recess and on the ledges 4, as seen in Figs. II and III. Projecting laterally, respectively, from the upper chord 8 and lower chord 9 are cars 13 and 14, corresponding in position to the positions of the ears 5 of the draft-rigging carrier. The bolster-ears lat are designed to rest upon the carrier-ears 5, as seen in Fig. III, and the ears. 5, 13, and 1st receive combinedly bolts passed vertically therethrough, whereby the liiody-bolster is held to the draft-rigging carrier.

By the construction of draft-rigging carrier and bolster as herein described I render the carrier and bolster practically a unit, due to the connection between them, thereby securing greater rigidity between said parts, and by producing the truclcbolster center-bearing as an integral member with the d raft-rigging carrier I furnish a construction in which greater strength oi the parts is obtained and wherein there is no liability oi? the centerbearing to become loosened and displaced, as is liable to occur where it is made separate from the part by which it is carried, as has heretofore been the custom.

I claim as my invention 1. As a new article of manufacture, a castmetal draft-rigging carrier having a truclc bolster center-bearing cast integral therewith, substantially as set forth.

2. The combination of a draft-rigging carrier proper provided with a transversely-oxtending recess, a body-bolster seated in said. recess, and means whereby said body-bolster carrier; said carrier and bolster being provided with beltreceiving ears located in proximity to the recess in said carrier, substantially as set forth.

OSVVALI) S. PULLIAM.

In presence of- E. S. KN mrr, N ELLIn V. ALEXANDER. 

